Family Polyprionidae Bleeker 1874

Polypriontini Bleeker 1874a:1 [ref. 5110] (phalanx ≈ tribe) Polyprion [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1; also Bleeker 1876a:253 [ref. 447]; stem changed to Polyprion- by Jordan & Evermann 1896a:1128 [ref. 2443], confirmed by Fowler 1936c:740 [ref. 6546], by Gosline 1966:95 [ref. 32661] and by Nelson 2006:345 [ref. 32486]]